Well, to answer your remarks from my

Perspective, the Democratic Party was once a real party, with vast differences between them and the Republicans.

Those of us old enough to understand what it means to be a FDR Democrat, and who realize that FDR's legacy is vastly different than what the New Age "Liberal" Democrats are forging, know that a Hilary Clinton Presidency is more of the same ol' same ol, Corporate-run state. (The definition of fascism, is after all, a place and time when Corporations run the government for their own purposes. Fascism doesn't necessarily have anything to do with swastikas or goose stepping soldiers.).

Thirty years of New Age Libs and we have a party far, far, FAR to the right of Richard Nixon.

With people like Obama supporting a Totalitarian NDAA Spy State, and the complete collapse of our civil liberties, with Endless wars for profit, with total support for the Nuclear Industry, with total support for Fracking and Pipelines (Obama approved a pipeline similar to Keystone XL over the Thanksgiving vacation,) what do people do if they want to have a decent environment? And to stop the military/surveillance state? Or to ensure that we have a decent safety net? And remember to arrive at such a militaristic, surveillance society, we have to insist on Austerity, including eliminating Social security and seizing that Fund, which currently has a damn Surplus of over 2 trillion bucks.

Right now due to Obama's Big Banking Appointments, 49 cents out of every dollar of profit generated in the USA goes DIRECTLY into the coffers of Big Businesses. Mainly the Four Biggest Banks.

To give you an idea of how out of whack that is, consider that under Reagan, only 8 cents out of every dollar went to banks.

How do we have a middle class if we continue along these lines? Of course, some here would argue we should just re-define "middle class" to mean people who make
$ 300K to $ 600K a year!

Let's state the friggin' obvious:

Floor this car and you raise 100 amps -

The video on this innovative Magnetic Car is going viral:

I alternate between being amused by and horrified by how there is

Talk from POTUS justifying NSA spying at the same time that tributes come in regarding Mandela.

If the President's design for a world enslaved by NAFTA, CAFTA and now the TPP comes to pass, there won't be any countries left with the type of decent officials who will be able to protest the imprisonment of a true leader, as happened when Mandela was in prison.

It was various influential officials across the world who demanded and got the release of Mandela from his "stint" in jail.

When the huge arm of these "Trade Agreements" destroys the democratic processes of the other nations - so that all nations resemble the banana republic we now have at work in this country - there won't be any future Mandelas living free from rendition, life long imprisonment, or execution by drone.

Canada's Boreal Forest Cut Into Matchsticks to allow for Tar Sands

Processes to proceed.

This is what we are doing to the Earth Our Mother. At a time when I get dirty looks for driving a somewhat over-sized van, as I have no other way to get any where, and no money to buy a Prius, our political leaders, from both sides of the aisle, are bought off an d paid for by the industry that is doing this to the Forests that our oxygen-depleted planet so desperately needs.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=499530230065565&set=a.278568382161752.74506.278550055496918&type=1&theater

The above photo can also be reached by this tinyurl:
http://tinyurl.com/mnautld

And while our Mainstream "News" Agencies were busy showing us the President pardoning the WH turkeys, he was more or less secretly approving a new pipeline to help the Tar Sands industry.

http://www.ibtimes.com/keystone-pipeline-update-obama-approves-new-cross-border-pipeline-benefiting-canadian-oil-sand

Journal study indicates the same thing that vaccine critics have been saying for

nearly a decade or more - The Whooping cough vaccine allows for transmission of whooping cough! (It is also though to be one of the more poorly designed, and more contaminated with viral and bacterial debris than other vaccines.)

NY Times article on Journal study:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/health/study-finds-vaccinated-baboons-can-still-carry-whooping-cough.html?_r=0

Whooping Cough Study May Offer Clue on Surge
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Published: November 25, 2013



Baboons vaccinated against whooping cough could still carry the illness in their throats and spread it, research published in a science journal on Monday has found. The surprising new finding has not been replicated in people, but scientists say it may provide an important clue to a puzzling spike in the incidence of whooping cough across the country, which reached a 50-year high last year.


Matthew Ryan Williams for The New York Times

An older vaccine with longer-lasting protection was found to have side effects.
The whooping cough vaccines now in use were introduced in the 1990s after an older version, which offered longer-lasting protection, was found to have side effects. But over the years, scientists have determined that the new vaccines began to lose effectiveness after about five years, a significant problem that many researchers believe has contributed to the significant rise in whooping cough cases.

The new study, published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers another explanation. Using baboons, the researchers found that recently vaccinated animals continued to carry the infection in their throats. Even though those baboons did not get sick from it, they spread the infection to others that were not vaccinated.

About a year ago, we had to put our kitty Toodles down:

I just had the sweetest dream about her, that I was taking down a tablecloth off the "kitty table" in our den, and I saw a kitty blanket crumpled up. When I went to straighten it, Toodles was hiding there.

She gave me a big grin and then I realized that over the past year, I should have looked for her. Finally I said, "I'm so sorry I didn't realize you are still with us." And she gave me her "outlaw grin" like she knew she could fool me.

In the dream, I never thought to consider that she was doing so well even though we hadn't fed her in over a year. This was a cat that showed up on our second floor porch, despite being 90% blind, half of the skin and flesh on the right side of her face missing. The vet who had tested her for feline AIDS, at the point in time after we had her for two months, and let us know that she had it. Yes, we were told way back in Nov 2010 how she had only six months, yet she blossomed under my spouse's tender care, including a mushroom potion he obtained monthly over the internet.

Under his patient and loving care, she became a beauty of a cat. When she became tumor-filled, late summer 2012, I went into denial, as I really thought she had beaten back the disease.

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